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Thread: Badges... Who's got badges |
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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Can somebody explain to me the practicality of the badges beyond something neat to show off? It is recognition for the contribution by volunteers and purely for competition sake. It makes crunching more fun.A.) Wouldn't it be more practical to award badges based on units of completion rather than units of time? You can *see* the progress of thousands of contributed work units of proteins.. time folding proteins doesn't really mean much. Ironic that you ask this question under this project where computing time is exactly proportional to the WUs completed (1 WU = appx 7 hours). I always felt that hours was the "fair" choice for badges. I can't remember specifically why time was used rather than points or WUs completed. Maybe you can find your answer in old posts from back then or someone else remembers the answer.B.) Would it be possible to add a status bar to the projects themselves, such as listing the finite and known-as-of-the-date number of work units left in a single project? This way people will be able to see for certain when they're making progress and getting closer to chewing through a chapter of the projects. Good suggestion. I second that. You should post it in the support forum under suggestions so it could possibly be addressed.Cheers   |
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Randzo
Senior Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jan 10, 2008 Post Count: 339 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It would´t be fair to get badges for points or Wu completed.
Points vary a lot and mostly are calculated as an average and WU time vary a lot too. HPF2 units can take from 5 to 9 hours on my PC so i think hours are most fair choice. And they give chance to get badges also for us normal crunchers and also for people with older PCs. And you can see progress bars here http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,18277 but it isnt easy to estimate especially when some projects like FAAH HPF and HCC haven´t finite number of experiments/WUs. And welcome to WCG hope you enjoy hepling scientists and society of all unselfish crunhers here. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Rametarin,
----------------------------------------We nor the techs or scientists know the exact number as the WCG slice and dice results on a continues and dynamic basis with a target time of 7 hours. The only projects we know fairly accurate numbers is HCC and DDDT2... status bar... little hope. Just look over at the official HFCC new site... it's been stuck on 25%, whilst I compute us to be well past the 50%. The only ones that do a dandy job are Nico_B of HCMD2 with bi-weekly update and Dr. Alex Perryman at experiment level for FAAH... but again there's no estimation due the ever changing work scope [more experiments added] and then there is \|/ for reasonable approximations, I think.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thank you all for the responses. :)
I hope to crunch many tiny work units and contribute as significantly as possible. |
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jasm580
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 20, 2007 Post Count: 157 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sapphire after this morning update. I moved everything I had to other projects except for my loan 400Mhz system that can't really do anything else. I am not sure what it will be doing after this project ends.
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Sekerob
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Jasm, is it not able to do HCMD2 successfully? Those tasks are even smaller (in hardware requirements), and have that nice 6 hour ceiling if 60% of content was not completed in that CPU hours timeframe.
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pball1224
Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 22, 2005 Post Count: 45 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Will be picking up Ruby with this afternoon's update. I don't think there's any hope for Emerald.
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jasm580
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 20, 2007 Post Count: 157 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Jasm, is it not able to do HCMD2 successfully? Those tasks are even smaller (in hardware requirements), and have that nice 6 hour ceiling if 60% of content was not completed in that CPU hours timeframe. It can but I question how "Successfull" it is. It alwasy got cut off by the 6 hour limit thus requireing some one else finish the job. It only gets about 7 points of credit for those 6 hours so I question how much work actually got done. edit: grammar
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[B@P]SEARCHER
Senior Cruncher Germany Joined: May 13, 2009 Post Count: 169 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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 WOW Great, Finally I got my Ruby Badge by Project Nutritious Rice for the World. I make now the Rest of my Work by this Project finished and I changed then to FightAIDS@Home.Greatings to all [B@P]SEARCHER
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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sapphire after this morning update. I moved everything I had to other projects except for my loan 400Mhz system that can't really do anything else. I am not sure what it will be doing after this project ends. Congratulations jasm! Blue looks good on you.  |
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